Whenever my family and I travel to familiar places, there are required food-related stops. When we go to San Diego, it is El Indio, Rubios, and In-N-Out. When we go to Delaware, it is Capriotti’s and Rita’s. When we go anywhere South, it is Krispy Kreme, Chick-fil-A, and Waffle...
One of the things I had forgotten about having babies is how incredibly transformative they can be. People totally change around babies. They ooh and ahh around babies. Their faces light up and they seem uncontrollably drawn toward infants. Their whole demeanor shifts at the sight of a baby. I...
I live in an area of our country that has a lot of “Keep Christ in Christmas,” signs. I think people post these signs for all sorts of reasons: for fear that Christmas has become too secular and lost its focus on the birth of the Christ Child; out of resistance to Christmas becoming...
This Advent has been a both-and experience for me this year. There have been some incredibly joyful moments: watching my daughter’s excitement about picking a Christmas tree, reading devotionals from our Advent calendar and enjoying my daughter’s insightful comments, and...
To see me now, you might not guess the initial reluctance I experienced with using a cell phone. My progress was slow from owning one at all, to learning to text, to using a smart phone, to now using my agile phone. Part of my reluctance was what such usage would mean – being able to be...
My oldest daughter is precocious. She is 5 and she comes from a long line of very head-strong women – at least three generations, but I never really knew the women in the generations above that. So with two ladies in the house who have strong opinions and strong wills, you can imagine...
Maybe it is because today is my birthday or maybe it is because we just lost a dear family member to cancer, but life and death have been on my mind a lot lately. The funny thing about being a priest is that those two things are almost always held in tension. In the course of one week, I can...
This year, St. Margaret’s has been Walking the Way through our Stewardship Season, praying on what giving means to us, why we give, and how our giving shapes our relationship with God and our church. Below is a guest post from parishioner Kimberly Irvine on why she is pledging...
As St. Margaret’s approaches our In-Gathering Sunday, a day when we gather our pledges for the coming year, some parishioners have been praying on what it means to Walk the Way in this Stewardship Season. Below is a guest post from parishioner Barbara Archer. I hope you enjoy her...
